to choose from. So I started with BASIC and then progressed to ML.
Given that, I learned a lot about how a computer works and other nitty
gritty functions available. Nowadays, some drag n drop programmers
don't realize there are underpinnings to the OS. They don't know that
there is an ftp command line program. They don't know there's a way to
schedule tasks without a mouse, etc. This is what frustrates me about
the vb programmer I work with. If there's not a COM object to do the
function, it's not possible in his eyes.
--
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American Contractors Insurance Group
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyons, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:57 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: age and politics
>
> You would have hated it. Its so much better now, and not just the GUI.
I
> remember in high school spending hours searching for this one error in
a
> program and discovering that it was a misplaced semi-colon. That would
> have
> taken about 5 minutes now at the most.
>
> I do not think that the ease of the programming is the issue, it's the
> understanding of the concepts and how they related. The basic methods
are
> the same, how you get there different though.
>
> larry
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tangorre, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:47 AM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: RE: age and politics
> >
> >
> > > I started when I was around the same age - that would make it
> > > over 30 years.
> > > Scary. But the real scary part is that it was on punch cards.
> > > (somewhere in storage I still have a copy of one of those
> > > programs - about the only one that wasn't turned into a
> > > Christmas wreathe).
> >
> > I have only been out of college a couple years now and
> > remember thinking how I would have loved to have been able to
> > learn to program back in the day like you. I think having a
> > better understanding of early generation programming
> > languages would help not only myself, but students of
> > programming as a whole get a grasp on what the hell they are
> > doing!!!... With all the drag and drop crap of today, it
> > makes things easier but it sure takes something out of the
> > art as well. I knew people that could use Visual Studio to
> > knock out a fairly simple program in C++ but the minute you
> > asked them to explain how pointers worked or how hardware and
> > interrupts worked, they had not the foggiest notion.
> >
> > Oh well... My Visual Studio just crashed, I should reboot. :-)
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
>
>
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